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... It is a place to get immersed in by wandering the narrow lanes, visiting the many temples and watching the many ceremonies that occur around the clock.

Feb 4- just before dawn we board a boat on the Ganges to witness the amazing spectacle on the ghats, the steps leading down to the river. Every day thousands of Hindu pilgrims come down to these 3 miles of riverback to immerse themselves in the waters. The afternoon is free to explore the city, ghats ...

... again at all. Charlotte clearly wasn’t too unhappy about this and in truth neither am I but it would have been nice to have the opportunity to camp again as it allows more flexibility when we are driving in areas where we may not have something booked.

All we had to do today was drive to Denver and drop off the car so ages ago we had decided to go to Vail which is about 3 hours away from the Rockies, it was sort of a trade-off for not being able to go to Aspen. I had a ...

... four city bikes (B-cycles in Denver) and rode along the Cherry Creek bicycle trail to Platte River. Along the way we saw a snowy egret and two night herons. We visited the newly renovated Union Station, which we had seen under construction in February 2013 and just reopened this week. It's beautiful but not fully open yet. From there we walked to lunch at the Wynkoop Brewpub ...

... is a professor at the university and teaches about marine, we fed some catfish some worms and saw some horses, sheep and buffaloes. We came back and had some lunch and a babysitter came to watch us while Mum, Dad, Chris and Gail went on a Brewery tour. We just hung out for a while until all the parents came back. Then we went to a christmas eve church service, there wasn't enough room in the main church so we went in a room underneath the ...

... capitol and sat there for a while people watching, unfortunately I must have answered a question or said something somehow because after hearing me speak a group of teenage boys decided to talk in a terrible English accent for the rest of the concert and then followed me when I left to walk up the capitol steps. I managed to lose them after about 15 minutes by getting on the free bus to take me back to my host. That evening we went for some Chinese ...